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A47487	Vivat Rex a sermon preached before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, aldermen, council and citizens of Bristol : upon the discovery of the late treasonable phanatick plot : at St. James's Church, July 25, 1683 being Sunday in the Fair-week / by R. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1683 (1683)	Wing K617; ESTC R17184	23,808	48

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the living Images of God and derives their power from him And this I could prove from the consent of most Authors both antient and modern but St Chrysostome hath said enough alone in these words Rom. xiii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be Englished out of St. Paul the Powers that be are ordained of God to which also Tertullian bears witness a Christian saith he is no mans enemy much less the Emperours whom he knows to be appointed by his God Psal xlvii 9. The shields of the earth are the Lords they bear his arms and inscription and he holds them up over all the world The Kingdom is the Lords Psal xxii 28. and he is the governour among all Nations And this truth is the grand supporter of Monarchs Thrones by me Kings Reign (c) Divisim imperium cum Jove Caesar habet which per denotes not a bare permission but by his commission not by Gods sufferance only but by his ordinance also their Charter is granted from heaven and may not be revoked at the peoples pleasure Magnificent Titles triumphant Arches honourable Attendants Crowns Thrones and Scepters are all requisite and suitable to the grandeur of a King and apt to beget awe and reverence in the hearts of the Vulgar but Alas this is but the outside and Ceremony of the Sacred Majesty whose representative the King is this is that which renders him truly sacred to all religious and judicious men and minds that he is placed in the throne to rule and govern us by the appointment of God whose King he is and whose judgment he pronounceth Away then with that dangerous Tenent that so frequently and maliciously falls from the mouths and pens of the seditious Rabble that all Power is from the people interpreting dei Minister the peoples Servant and if he comply not with their giddy humours which in Prudence and Conscience he is not bound to doe then they may assert their native right and reassume the trust reposed in him this monstrous opinion flies in the face of God Almighty by pretending to a law of nature for the violation of all the laws both of God and man And reproacheth the wisdom of the most high for appointing no better government over them And to their other objection I answer that sovereign powers have their imployment from God and by his Authority and so are his servants only and the end of their employment is to be beneficial to the good of others but not in Subjection to their powers Now this truth rightly improved will be matter of Comfort to us that the government we live under is of Gods Institution and that God may bless his own ordinance and continue it in the right Line to the glory of his Name and the good of this Nation Let us pray God save the King the Queen the Illustrious Prince James Duke of York and all the Royal Family The excellency of Kingly dignity appears in this Jus Sangain nullo Jure d●rimi potest that even God himself hath among his own honorary titles taken to himself the name of King his title runs thus King of Kings and Lord of Lords and his goverment over the whole world is Monarchical for tho' there be three persons in the sacred Trinity yet there is but one God and confequently but one King everlasting Let then those Scriblers and Pamphlereers who of late have scattered their poyson through the Nation to the disparagement of Kingly government and ruin of unwary Subjects Let them I say blush for shame and tremble to consider how through the side of their lawful Soveraign they have struck at God's own Monarchy over the world as far as their power or malice could extend The dignity of Kings is seen in their Supremacy which is the most express character of himself which God can put upon a man 1 Pet. ii 13. and such a supremacy St. Peter tells us is only in God and the King for God is the supreme ruler of Kings and Kings are the supreme rulers of men therefore God himself the better to oblige our obedience to them Psal lxxxii 7. as well as to himself stiles them Gods That God who by an omnipotent fiat first called the passible world into act and hath ever since laid out the same power for preserving what he first created 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath indued Kings with Prerogative more than humane for though they be shrouded under the Veil of mortality yet their power bears no small Resemblance with the Deity and to make the Supreme power accountable to any Inferior Jurisdiction or the will of the people were to set up an authority over him to whom our subjection is due Illa dicitur summa potestas cujus actus alterius juri non s●beunt ita ut alterius voluntatis humanae arbitrio irriti possint reddi Grotius which is a down right contradiction in terms For Supreme power is not nor cannot be subject to anothers law and this great truth all good subjects are obliged to defend with their lives and fortunes For yield up the enemy but this one flower the Kings Prerogative and their incroaching fingers will be reaching after all their malice being so unreasonable that a dear-bought experience hath told us It is easier to deny them all than having gratified them in part to prescribe them a measure And now methinks I hear our Antimonarchists say the doctrine of the Kings Supremacy is urged by none but those that by Court-flattery seek their own preferment and promote Arbitrary Government To which I Answer If to preach obedience to Authority does brand men with the name of flatterers they cannot excuse God almighty the blessed Jesus the Patriarks Prophets Apostles Saints and Martyrs from being guilty of it For this is the Doctrine of the Bible and the language of good men in all ages and if this be a scandall God grant that all the Sons of the Church of England may live under this disgrace and dye under this Ignominy Neither is this the way to promote arbitrary government but the contrary for the Kings Supremacy is the Subjects safety t is that Palladium which whilst preserved Inviolable stands as a bulwark about the Nation to protect us in our rights both Civil and Religious For by this Trust reposed in the Prince Each single Person is fortified with the strength of a Nation And this is attested by the every days Experience of all our fellow Subjects who live quiet obedient and peaceable Lives and opposed by none but those that think his Majesties Guards a grievance his Laws an oppression and the benefit of his Life and Reign a check to their disobedience and rebellions Come we now in the third place to speak of the Person supplicated to God and indeed to whom should Persons address their Prayers for their King but unto their God who is King of Kings who hath both Authority

to make and Power to preserve them and by all demonstration of Kindness watcheth over them for good Nay so jealous is God Almighty in this particular that he will not allow any mortal man or thing to have the honour of rescuing them from danger nor give the glory of their Preservation to any other than himself it is God that giveth Salvation unto Kings and delivereth David from the hurtful Sword It is not the Wisdom of his Counsellors the Care of his Magistrates the Fidelity of his Servants nor the Courage of his Soldiers that preserve a King tho' all these act commendably in their Stations for unless the Lord watch over Them as well as their Cities the Watchman waketh but in vain Nor can the Love of his Subjects lengthen his days the best Office they can do him is but like the People in the Text to pray for his Health it is God only that can give him Help in the time of Trouble be Rebels never so rebellious and outragious he that stilleth the raging of the Sea and the madness of the Multitude can so charm the unruliness of a Seditious People as to bring them to Submission or Confusion Now God's special care and providence over his Anointed Ones is shewn in Scripture by a threefold injunction laid by Himself upon their Subjects under very severe and heavy penalties God doth not allow any Subject to harbour in his breast an ill Thought against his Sovereign Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts Eccles x. 20. for the birds of the Air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter By which some Commentators understand a Power given by God to the Tutelary Angels of Kings and Governours to understand the trayterous thoughts of all such as bear disloyal and treacherous hearts against their Princes That the Sin of Rebellion might never be brought forth God does stifle it in the Womb nip it in the bud and destroy it in the very thoughts that it may never come to do further mischief And greater Reason is there for our observance of this Prohibition since the first entertainments of Sin are oftentimes of dangerous consequence while the Enemy is without doors it is an easie matter to keep him there but when he has entred the house he is not expulsed without trouble and difficulty therefore God Almighty who always designs the good of his People that we might not inure our Tongues to speak Evil of Dignities nor stretch forth our Hands against the Lords Anointed will not permit us to lodge a disloyal thought in the most secret recesses of our bosoms Not to open our mouths in disparagement of their Persons or government and great cause is there for this prohibition also or no sooner hath Pride formed men into Disobedience but the next step they take is by Reproaches to ruine the reputation of the government and impede the accomplishment of righteous designs Reputation being to actions what Feathers are to Arrows making them fly the better and pierce the deeper they indeavour to deprive their governors of this advantage If there be any fallings in their conversation they are sure to be represented in the blackest Colour And by all the advantages of art improved into a Condemnation of the whole constitution These were the wretched methods that first begat and also continue the feeds of rebellion among us Let the King say what he will they read it backwards and make the best of his actions speak nothing but Arbitrary Government and Persecution When the King declares he will govern by the known Laws they remonstrate that he does not and suggest by their groundless and unreasonable faers and jealousy that he will not and by carping at his proceedings and misrepresenting his actions so deflower the beauty of his Crown with Satyrical invectives that he becomes less able to serve those great ends for which government was instituted if therefore you desire to approve your selves good Subjects and good Christians invent not evil stories of him whom God hath set over you falsly believe them not easily report them not disloyally aggravate them not spitefully scatter them not industriously but aprrehend such disloyal thieves whom you take a pillaging your Princes good name the forward receiver of an evil report being as bad as he that brings it always remembring that railing against Kings was a Capital crime in David's judgment who commanded Solomon to put Shimei to death for it Not to lift up a finger to their prejudice for no man can do it and be guiltless Touch not mine Anointed saith the Psalmist and wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand against the Lords Anointed saith David to the wicked Amalekite that slew King Saul in all times hath God manifested his vengeance against such Rebells as have risen up against them witness Corah Dathan and Abiram whom the earth swallowed up quick and became at once both their Sexton and their grave Witness Zimri burnt to ashes in that very palace whence he had driven his Lord and Sovereign and so notable a vengeance indeed it was that wicked Jezabel took special notice of it for had Zimri Peace said she that slew his Master I might here be infinite if I should add to these instances all those dreadful Examples of God's Vengeance against such as have been Rebells against their Kings which I could fetch you both from Ecclesiastical and Secular Histories but I shall at present ease my self and you of that Trouble since what hath already been said does sufficiently demonstrate that God hath a most special and particular Care in the Preservation of Kings and therefore to none so fitly may the People address themselves for the Life and Safety of their Sovereign as unto God and more comprehensive words we cannot use than what is prescrib'd in the Text God save the King The last particular is the matter of the Supplication That the King might be Saved and Preserved and all the People shouted and said God save the King And we are encouraged to a chearful performance of this duty because God doth usually grant it and because the King needs it more than ordinary persons do The King's duty is more difficult his abundance exposeth him to more temptations and his height to more dangers than any of his People and his preservation is far more necessary and of universal concernment for he is worth ten thousand of us and we had need pray heartily to God to Save him who doth defend us all the King stands in need of more wisdom to direct him more power to protect him more care to preserve him than other men For as the King doth not Live Sibi sed Populo so neither doth he Dye to his own but to our disadvantage a thousand others may steal out of the World and no body mind or miss them but the loss of a King would soon be felt therefore saith the Apostle I Exhort that

our Sins And again pag. 53. says that the reasons that moved the Pope to despose Kings was good and just and meet to be received and Executed by the body of every Common wealth Apel. Pag. 26. Knox the Scottish Presbyter says it is blasphemy to say we must obey Kings whether they be good or evil And asserts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 26. Buchanan in his Book de jure Regni apud Scotos among other things of dangerous consequence to crowned heads says populus rege est prastantior melior Pag. 38. The People are more excellent than the King And this he avoucheth with the greatest confidence imaginable though the Holy Scripture says plainly that the King is worth ten thousand of the people The same Author says that the People have the same power over the King that the King hath over any one man and that Ministers may Excommunicate him and then draws this damnable conclusion that he who by Excommnication is cast into hell is not worthy to live upon earth Thus hath the Scotch Rebell like that Italian Tyrant taught Sbjects how at one blow they may kill both the Body and Soul of their Prince But as if this were not bad enough yet Pag● 40. the wretched Presbyter adds that it were very good that rewards were appointed by the people for such as should kill Tyrants and such they account all those Kings that will not submit their necks to the yoke of their discipline as there be sallaries allowed for those qui lupos aut ursos occiderunt aut catulos eorum deprehenderunt Who have killed Wolves or Bears or have destroyed their brood And who that hears these Doctrines more bloody than Popery or Paganism will doubt that 't is the leaders of these people that dipping their pens in Gall make way for the sword to glut it self with the Blood of Kings Nor were our English Presbyters and Independents much behind their holy brethren the Scots in wicked confederacy and against their King and like the Priests and Praeco's of Mars in scattering Fire-brands through the Nation Book of the Covenant in Evangel Armat pag. 42. Mr. Case calls the late Rebellion the Holy War the Cause of God and Saints all that ingaged in it the Scotch Covenant he calls Christs marriage-contract and says to act against it was to despight the Holy Ghost Zach. Crofton's Answ to Bp. Gauden Edit 3. Pag. 22. Crofton says that all Acts of Parliament made against it were damnable and that Parents ought to baptize their Children into the Scotch Covenant Spirit of Popery 7. 26. 42. Calamy's Ser. before the Lords Dec. 25. 1644. Jenkin's Humble Pet. Oct. 15. 1657. Mr. Calamy and Mr. Jenkins said that the Parliament without the King were the Supreme power of the Nation and that they were assisted by the speciall direction of God And that none could do such things viz Rebelling against the King and Butchering his Subjects except God were with them Mr. Love in his Sermon at the Treaty at Vxbridge Says that the Sword not Arguments must end that Controversy Evangel Armat vid. First Second Part of the History of Separation Mr. Baxter hath said enough in his Holy Common-wealth and other writings to prove him the Bell-weather of Sedition and a man of blood and he that would see further let him view the first and second part of the Dissenters sayings collected from their works and besides this Rebellion against and deposing of Princes is warranted in above twenty places in the Assemblies Annotations and of the same Complexion is Mr. Pool's Criticks Vid. Hist Athaliah Thus have you seen the Devil of Rebellion transforming himself into an Angel of Reformation Icon Bisil and those that should have been Embassadours of Peace the fomenters of an unnatural and bloody War And all under the pretence of Religion The true Religion prevailed upon the world by Purity of Doctrine and Innocency of Life but these mens principles having in this particular a nearer affinity to the Laws of the Impostor Mahomet pudet haec opprobr a nobis dici potuisle non potuisle refelli than the precepts of the Holy Jesus a took the same method for the Establishment thereof as he did who injoyn'd his worshipers by a Law Alcor pag. 125. to persevere in Killing Christians till they was rooted out of the earth So that if Rebellion be Religion then the Papists Mahumetans and Presbyterians are the only true Protestants in the world if the Second murther of a King and utter ex●irpa●ion of the Royall Family the way to promote Gods Glory then are Dissenters the only Champion for the Government and to say worse of them than that they are Seditious and Rebellious upon the accompt of their Religious Principles were to cast I●k upon the face of an Ethiopian You have now heard some of those Monstrous Doctrines that in defiance to the Laws of God and Man encourage the Resistance and consequently the ruin of Kings But that they are as opposite to truth as Light is to Darkness is the next particular wherewith I shall Exercise your patience and this I will do by proving that Religion doth not exempt us from the Authority and Power of Kings and rulers though they be infidels and Heathens and not only strangers but Enemies to true Religion and the professors of it It is not objecting Enormities in the Religion Life or Government of a King that can absolve their subjects from Obedience for the tyes and bonds of duty and subjection to them are Sacred and inviolable Dominion and soveraignty are the Ordinances of God not as he is the Author of grace and redeemer of his Church But as he is the Author of mankind and Governour of the world Dominium temporale non fundatur in gratia Supernatural grace is not that which constitutes Kingdoms nor is the calling of Magistrates a Mistery of the Gospel but an appointment of God by his universall providence The duty of Children to Parents of Servants to Masters of Subjects to Princes is not a consequence of Christianity but a principle of Nature and unalterable by Religon a Christian Child cannot abandon his duty to his Parents tho they be Heathens or Infidels a Christian Servant cannot shake off the yoke of Subjection because his Master is an Vnbeliever 1 Tim. vi 1. nor Christian Subjects deny their allegiance to their Lawful Sovereign tho Heathen and Infidells And he must be a stranger to the Sacred records and the practice of good men in all ages that asserts the contrary But that I may give you one Example for all in a case that directly agrees with all that the Enemies of Monarchy can object against our obedience see it in the Prophet Daniels behaviour towards King Darius Now this Darius was a Heathen Prince one that kept the Church and people of God in cruel bondage and captivity Dan. iii.